An Easter Chant by Gordon Young. Choral. For SATB choir. Sacred, Choral. Grade 3. Choral octavo. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.5409).
Modern rhythmic and , at times, dissonant chant supplely building to the exclamatory, "Jesus Christ is Risen Today!".

When Love is Found by Daniel Kallman. Choral. For SAB choir. Music for the Church Year. Sacred, Wedding, Choral. Grade 2. Choral octavo. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.J14).
When Love Is Found is a moving anthem that may involve the congregation on the last verse if you wish. Permission is granted to reprint in your bulletin. The joining together of the contemporary hymn text by Brian Wren with the beloved folksong "O Waly, Waly" ("The Water is Wide") makes this SAB piece easily accessible and moving. (optional clarinet and flute parts are included plus cues for piano if no instruments are used.).

Joyance by Bruce Pearson. Band. For concert band. Standard of Excellence in Concert. Grade 2. Score and set of parts. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WB187).
An Exultant 18th Century Hymn-Tune Provides The Melodic Inspiration For Joyance, A Jubilant Concert Or Festival Fantasia. Written In Ternary Form, The Work Opens With A Hymn-Based Maestoso Introduction In Eb Major. Following The Allegro A Section (Also Based Melodically On The Hymn), The Mood Becomes Plaintive As The B Section Is Presented Featuring A Relative Minor Version Of Hymn Motives. Following A Return Of The Eb Major A Section, The Work Concludes With A Coda, During Which A Victorious Exclamation Of The Complete Darwall Composition Is Heard.
About Standard of Excellence in Concert
The Standard of Excellence In Concert series presents exceptional arrangements, transcriptions, and original concert and festival pieces for beginning and intermediate band. Each selection is correlated to a specific page in the Standard of Excellence Band Method, reinforcing and expanding skills and concepts introduced in the method up to that point. Exciting parts with extensive cross-cueing are presented for every player. Accessible ranges, appropriate rhythmic challenges, and creative percussion section writing enhance the pedagogical value of the series.Sold individually, each In Concert selection includes a full Conductor Score and enough student parts for large symphonic bands. Each student part also includes correlated Warm-Up Studies. The Conductor Score comes complete with rehearsal suggestions, a composer biography, program notes, a rehearsal piano part, several ready-to-duplicate worksheets and a duplicable written quiz.

Trick Or Treat by Jane Smisor Bastien. Piano. For Piano. Bastien piano. Solos. Primer. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WP1026).
Beginning students can easily play this treat since thumbs hover mostly around middle C.

Happy Halloween by Jane Smisor Bastien. Piano. For piano (Bastien Supplementary Books). Bastien Piano. Solo Collections. Music Book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WP103).
ISBN 849752175.
Eleven original Bastien solos with a spooky Halloween theme. Written especially to motivate young students near the beginning of the school year. Containing solos at Primer Level, Level 1, and Level 2, it can be used by the same student over a two-year period.

Halloween Witches by Jane Smisor Bastien. Piano. For Piano. Bastien piano. Solos. Grade 1. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WP1030).
Young pianists will love to portray these witches. The fastest notes are quarters!

Ghosts Dance on Halloween by Jane Smisor Bastien. Piano. For Piano. Bastien piano. Solos. Grade 2. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WP1033).
Fingers dance in D minor and in tarantella style as they chase ghosts from one octave to another.

Halloween Haunted House by Jane Smisor Bastien. Piano. For Piano. Bastien piano. Solos. Grade 3. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company (KJ.WP1034).
The chromaticism of the staccato quarter notes and the changes in dynamics, really create a spooky atmosphere!